Featured: Snow Your History: Philadelphia Winters
As of this writing, the winter of 2013–2014 was the third snowiest winter in Philadelphia history. Here are some fun images of Philadelphia's snowfalls of the past from our digital collections and from the City's Department of Records.

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Welcome to our digital collections. We have over 30,000 images digitized from the Free Library of Philadelphia's extensive collections and are constantly adding more. Please check the collections you wish to search and enter your search terms or use our advanced search page.

If you have a passion for cars, check out this collection for images of passenger cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles and carriages, selected from one of the largest gatherings of automotive literature in the world.

The Central Library, on Philadelphia's beautiful Benjamin Franklin Parkway, was dedicated on June 2, 1927. Seventy-five years later, it is a dynamic, evolving destination where the world is at your fingertips and you can travel anywhere in time or place through books and multiple electronic media.

View our unique collection of Dickens manuscripts, original illustrations, autograph letters, and other mementos, which were given to the Free Library by collectors William Elkins and D. Jacques Benoliel.

Take a look behind the scenes at the process of creating a children's book—from manuscripts, sketches and preliminary art to book dummies, color separations, and final artwork—in this collection of images from our archives.

Fraktur are colorful documents made by Pennsylvania Germans who lived in rural parts of southeastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding region during the 1700s and 1800s. Most fraktur are personal records, such as birth and baptismal certificates.

Franklin D. Edmunds, one of the photographers whose work is featured in our Historical Images of Philadelphia collection, was a world traveler who took photos wherever he went, from the Delaware Water Gap and Lancaster County to Jamaica and Turkey.

View images from books, pamphlets, and illustrations related to the trials of King Charles I, William Penn, Daniel O'Connell, and Queen Caroline, from the Hampton L. Carson Collection Illustrative of the Growth of Common Law.

The images contained in this digital collection document Philadelphia’s past through its neighborhoods, buildings, and events. The earliest photograph in the collection dates back to 1841; most are from the latter half of the 19th century, with a few from the early 20th century.

Our map collection enables you to see how Philadelphia's neighborhoods and streets have grown and changed. Use our interactive mapping tool to overlay atlases dating back as far as 1843 over today's street layout.

The Free Library of Philadelphia, with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, invites you to visit our Web version of the 100th birthday party for the United States, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.